New Alachua County Youth Program Aims To help make Reading More Relatable

The seven boys and girls plopped documented on purple bean-bag chairs inside Porters Community Center in Gainesville one morning in the week and began reading children’s books.

Omarion Johnson, 9, read “Those Shoes,” a couple of boy named Jeremy who desperately wants the most recent, coolest shoes. The competition at Jeremy’s school has them, but his grandma couldn’t manage to buy him a few. Omarion could relate